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An Apology for Poetry (or The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after his death. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after his death.
It was known in this cobbled-together fashion until the discovery, in the early twentieth century, of the earlier version. An Apology for Poetry [12] (also known as A Defence of Poesie and The Defence of Poetry) – Sidney wrote Defence of Poetry before 1583. It has taken its place among the great critical essays in English.
In 1858, William Stigant, a poet, essayist, and translator, wrote in his essay "Sir Philip Sidney" [7] that Shelley's "beautifully written Defence of Poetry" is a work which "analyses the very inner essence of poetry and the reason of its existence, – its development from, and operation on, the mind of man".
Philip Sidney’s crititical work in An Apology for Poetry (1595) was a key precedent for Scott's treatise, The Model of Poesy (1599).. The treatise of The Model of Poesy (1599) is in three sections; [5] in the first section, Scott defines poetry and makes clear his debts to earlier theorists:
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (née Sidney, 27 October 1561 – 25 September 1621) was among the first Englishwomen to gain notice for her poetry and her literary patronage. By the age of 39, she was listed with her brother Philip Sidney and with Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare among the notable authors of the day in John Bodenham ...
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